| Show i L the san thursday contains tho astounding paragraph v the cormons mormons of bear lake county I 1 T have sent a protest to cleveland against an enactment of the territorial legislature Leei slature prohibit edg any person guilty of the crime of bigamy or polygamy from voting or acting aa a jurors the protest states that tho democrats cast of the votes of tho county at the alast election and for that reason the president should not permit the but race to bo continued vo apprehend thattie petition will receive about as much attention as one would the cl assin who aro prevented from holding 0 aice or by a provision of the constitution which makes a person convicted of an infamous crime ineligible lo vole or hold office if the cormons mormons wish to persist in defying the laws they penalty to bo a fatality at tending tho treatment of any ques s ron acia btag to the Mormon sl by he leading journals of the laud or almost invariably ahe most palpable wilful v A or gross mistakes are perpetrated the by the ids is entirely incorrect the cormons mormons of bear lake county idaho have not sent a protest to ogain st an enactment of the territorial legis jahure prohibiting any person guilty of the crime of bigamy or polygamy from voting or acting as a juror the of that county have protested against the continuance of anarchy in their local government the last session of the idaho legislature left to Bear Lake scarcely any form or feature except the necessity to pay taxes one of the acts passed by the lawmaking law making body provided a religious test oath from jury service every man who would not swear that he did not beiro voi lu lb e tenets of the mormon chuich the result of this outrageous measure was to leave the buntyn oun a state of chaos the x tent trouble is shown by in the following words ii t last weeke pur court was compelled compel ted to adjourn without doing any criminal business whatever be cause it was impossible under the ret enough grand arid petit jurors in this county who can conscientiously test oath prescribed by s aid Legislature jurors or electors and no bonocan be a unless he aeji qualified elector alie said court did its utmost to get grand jury but was unable under existing laws to secure one A band of thieve sare now living upon plunder from ns and other bottlers and wo ars unable to cuto them they feel perfectly eaf achoy well know they are secure from indictment and trial een murder could bo committed with impunity and it would bo imi im i possible to briny ho murderer to ly the unconstitutionality and injustice of the act is made more fully j apparent i by these facts not more anan one in members of who idahlia Idah nia now or ever has been living in of plural marriage and the supreme court jy declared that can not be legislated against belief ig beyond the power of will it is the uncontrollable result following the conscience law can not create it bior Ia to punish any man for entertaining a particular view so lone as his belief is not attended t ir ia t I 1 11 ll by any unlawful act on his part i monstrous Operating upon adopted by the idaho legislature the National congress could awen have dis franchised and disqualified every roan who mardy entertained the without acting upon it that fugitive lave Should b e assisted in th effort to escape frem masters arany or any state legislative day rob every man af pf citizenship who holds the very common disbelief in the creator or re docmer of the franchise could be given to the chinese in california and ony person who presumed in iiii own mind to question the constitutionality or propriety of the act could be re quiren to forfeit his property lo 10 the noflie admond cacs the disfranchisement and disqualification which lie evidently had so view were accod by the edmunds act in under this law no practicing polygamy or unlawful cohabitation can vote hold office or perform in anny territory of the united states surely this ought to have been enough nod i great paper to applaud further which are and tyrannical because they are taken to oppress an unpopular clas the ban chronicle has been obliged so often in the past to combat the injustice which vicious and legia latora have y Y sough Tto perpetrate per against itself and the people of california that to wilfully rols represent the cause of any sufferer however lacking ho may bo in public favor t a 0 much money accurate in formation thabit make mistakes in a matter which is important to any person or people it aspires to such a high rank in journalism that if it is misled it cannot afford to paea the error by without contradiction in ils own columns when tho facts are fully |
